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Monday, 13 June 2016

scala school

About

Scala school started as a series of lectures at Twitter to prepare experienced engineers to be productive Scala
programmers. Scala is a relatively new language, but draws on many
familiar concepts. Thus, these lectures assumed the audience knew the
concepts and showed how to use them in Scala. We found this an effective
way of getting new engineers up to speed quickly. This is the written
material that accompanied those lectures. We have found that these are
useful in their own right.

Approach

We think it makes the most sense to approach teaching Scala
not as if it were an improved Java but instead as a new language.
Experience in Java is not expected. Focus will be on the interpreter and
the object-functional style as well as the style of programming we do
here. An emphasis will be placed on maintainability, clarity of
expression, and leveraging the type system.
Most of the lessons require no software other than a Scala
REPL. The reader is encouraged to follow along, but also to go further!
Use these lessons as a starting point to explore the language.

----------------------------This is Scala School - a set of lessons covering the Scala programming language.
We use jekyll to generate the site. In order to build it, you must first install it:

$ gem install jekyll

should do. Now, build the site with make. This will create a copy of the lessons in the web.out folder.
For development, you'll also need to install RedCloth.

$ gem install RedCloth

Then make serve will launch jekyll in serving mode: a web server will be launched on port 4000, and changing files will automatically rebuild the site.
To publish to http://twitter.github.io/scala_school: